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'Human-caused warming helped prime slope for deadly Nepal-Tibet flood'

'Human-caused warming helped prime slope for deadly Nepal-Tibet flood' — photograph supplied by Times of India

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Researchers described it as a cascading disaster rather than conventional flood. Around 2 sq km of rock wall and glacier ice collapsed from Langtang Lirung at about 5,150 metres, plunging around 1,400 metres before turning into a debris flood. Water, rock, ice and sediment then travelled around…

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